Jacqueline Bisset joins CBS' 'Eastmans'

March 23, 2009 Jacqueline Bisset is set as a lead in CBS' drama pilot "The Eastmans"; Steve Howey has landed the male lead in NBC's comedy pilot "State of Romance," with Zoe Lister Jones and Grace Rex also cast in leading roles; Andrea Parker has nabbed a lead role on ABC's comedy presentation "This Little Piggy"; and Lourdes Benedicto has joined ABC's drama pilot "V." On WBTV's "Eastmans," about a dysfunctional family of doctors, Bisset will play the mother, an emergency-room nurse. WBTV's "V," a re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about an invasion of aliens known as Visitors, centers on Erica (guest star Elizabeth Mitchell), a female Homeland Security agent.

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